Guests: Aditi Narayanan & Dr. Stuart Bartlett

How do viruses shape life on Earth? Well, the Coronavirus pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg. Using the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Macrocosm" as our launchpad, Caltech scientists Aditi Narayanan & Stuart Bartlett join me to discuss how the tiniest biological entities leave huge and truly unexpected imprints on life at the levels of individual cells, entire ecosystems, and the biosphere as a whole.

Check out Aditi's podcast, Biosphere: https://caltechletters.org/podcasts/biosphere/